DAWN DEDEAUX
INTRODUCTION

Dawn DeDeaux is considered among America's pioneering artists in new media. She is acknowledged in two current college text books, including Understanding Art, and Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media. Her work is the indepth subject of the concluding chapter of Discipline and Photograph, a book by art theorist James Huginin of the Chicago Art Institute, and constitute a less appreciative chapter in the book Drama Trauma by Tim Murray or Cornell University. Her work has also been reviewed in numerous publications including New York Times, Art in America, USA Today and ArtForum. DeDeaux's work has also been the subject of televised features including CBS Sunday Morning and Canada Public Broadcasting's series The Future.

Works by DeDeaux have been exhibited widely throughout the country, including Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Arman Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Baltimore Museum for Contemporary Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut; The Peace Museum, Chicago; Seattle Center on Contemporary Art; Delfina Studio Trust, London; Thread Waxing Space, New York; Canadian Film Society / PleasureDome, Toronto; and the Huntington Museum of Art, Austin Texas.

DeDeaux is an honorary member in Tau Sigma Delta, the National Academic Society for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. She is winner of the MONTAGE 93 International Competition for work which best merged art and technology. She is the recipient of the 1997 American Academy in Rome Prize as Knight Foundation Visiting Artist. Resulting from a comprehensive twelve state search, DeDeaux was selected as one of the most important contemporary southern artists working today by the 1996 Olympics Cultural Committee whicgh premiered her multimedia work The Face of God, In search of at the Olympic Games in Atlanta.

DeDeaux is the winner of the 1976 Demolition Derby staged in the Louisiana Superdome as the only female contestant in a field of 35 drivers.